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Indian prime minister has a habit of collecting awards on his travels, some as their first and only recipient

As Narendra Modi touched down in Seychelles over the weekend, the archipelago nation in the Indian Ocean swiftly bestowed one of its “highest” honours upon the Indian prime minister.

Modi beamed as he accepted the Guardian of the Blue Horizon award from Patrick Herminie, the Seychelles president, complete with a trophy and certificate.

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Arrest warrant issued for bombing suspect who will soon be subject of an Interpol Red Notice

A suspect has been identified in the investigation into a parcel bombing that seriously wounded a sanctioned Ukraine-born multimillionaire and two others in Monaco, the principality’s prosecutor’s office said Thursday.

“An arrest warrant has been issued for the suspect, who will be the subject of an Interpol Red Notice from this evening,” the prosecutor’s office added.

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Al drie maanden lang ligt er een ongeopend pakketje in de lade van mijn bureau. Daarin een snurkbeugel.

Plaats de cijfers 1 tot en met 9 zo in het diagram dat elk cijfer precies één keer voorkomt in elke rij, kolom, de negen vetomrande 3x3 vakken, én de vier grijze 3x3 vakken.

Horizontaal: 1. ‘Voorjaarstrek zit erop, dus vis__ staat weer uit’ 6. Russische clown 9. Delen de kaarten uit 10. Vol(komen in de weer) 11. Daarvan komt de wind fel aan 14.

Dix hectares Cosmetics Identity and Graphic Design Ten hectares of cultivated land are where it all begins. The estate's château, with its hundred-year history, became our anchor point. We built an organic world: logotypes, lettering, illustrations, patterns and icons, all hand drawn. We designed on the codes of literary publishing, giving the brand real narrative depth. For packagings, we followed production through to the smallest finishes. The typography draws on 19th-century French codes, with a contemporary touch, with drop caps illustrated from each product's own ingredients.

The US unemployment rate fell to 4.2% in June largely because 720,000 people left the labor force, pushing participation to 61.5%. Excluding the Covid-era jobs market, that's the lowest participation rate since June 1976. CNBC reports: The decline in the labor force marks a "massive exodus" driven by multiple factors, said Mike Reid, head of U.S. economics at RBC. "The unemployment rate fell to 4.2% as both the number of unemployed workers and the size of the labor force pulled back," Reid wrote in a post-report commentary. "This may well be a story of retirements but could also be a story of prior job seekers dropping out of the labor force."

[...] [T]he rolls of those counted as not in the labor force, a group that includes the unemployed and those not looking for work, jumped by 832,000. And while the establishment survey, which counts jobs filled, showed growth for the month of 57,000, the survey of households, which counts the actual level of those working, tumbled by 507,000. On a year-over-year basis, the labor force is down by just over 1 million, while the level of the employed also has fallen by 1.06 million and the ranks of the unemployed have risen by 40,000. The employment-to-population ratio slipped to 59% in June, the lowest since October 2021. All that has happened while the unemployment rate has risen by just one-tenth of a percentage point to 4.2%.

The drop in participation is sometimes attributed to a shrinking immigrant population and retiring baby boomers and Gen Xers. However, in June the biggest plunge came from what is defined as "prime age" workers, or those between the ages of 25 and 54. That rate fell 0.6 percentage point to 83.3%, its lowest since December 2023. "Looking at the statistics now, that argument doesn't hold up so well," North said of the retirement and immigration rationale. "I hate to use the word 'alarming,'" he added, but said the numbers are cause for concern.

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